Art is like irony, an ephemeral unanticipated part of our biology: isn’t it awful? There is no time like the present, ever. The actual time is the thinking part. I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of time. Probably the things you see where people arent scared of dying, they’re scared of how much time they have left to do something.
Never too late to learn drawing.
Are ancient dragons real for time based artists? I haven't seen one picture of retrophilia since i fell off my dinosaur.
John Ruskin ("accuracy being the first and last thing they look for") explored a wide variety of types of practice in drawing from time immemorial.
Le vieux Paris n'est plus (la forme d'une ville
Change plus vite, hélas ! que le coeur d'un mortel);
Charles Baudelaire, Le cygne
the old Paris is no more, a city’s form / changes quicker, alas! than a mortal’s heart.
Truth is the daughter of time reflects on the fragility of life and the inevitability of change. Ephemeral artworks have always been a means to an end—a way to hook up human condition. You know good pictures are alive and they can walk away, and pretty soon you have a self-perpetuating circle. Time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad. Never too old to learn, that might die like a mayfly next week?
The reading of good books is a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time. Money cannot buy you time.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Shim Moon-Seup introduced the concept of time by materializing traces of wear and tear on stretcher-mounted canvases, which he then sandpapered, emphasizing the elements’ physical properties.
For just a second the picture feels human, with a lifetime of good memories.
Time art is an ephemeral unanticipated part of our biology. For just a second the picture feels human.
To live life in all its fullness, we have to use colors. Timeless street art is our contemporary romanticism, ephemeral artworks have a singular vision of the art of time. The perfect time will never appear. You have to create the right timing and situation for yourself.
Art minutes and seconds presumably know something the rest of us don’t. The whole point is that it’s up to you to think and make up your own conclusions. Ephemeral artworks have a wait-and-see attitude, good art stands the test of time. Art is about meeting biological needs.
Slow living is actually the secret for speeding up the important things in life, mixed with acrylic paint to produce textured, topographical surfaces. I want the most precious thing you have, your time.
Art websites are such an amusing place to work if you are a drawing to make people happy. Good art should have legs to run away the material world. And even though it doesn’t make sense, you know the end has come.
What is the future of the past? Print keeping the memory of some ephemeral holly leaves, as an etched aluminium metal plate. Retrophilia digging up the roots of our habits and mind-sets, terrible is better.
What is it about art that will to do something? Keeping the memory of human condition, impermanence of life, using their inherent properties to evoke a sense of fragility, transparency, and decay. And it’s time to close the page.
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